United States Airline-Related Fatalities and Accident Rate

2 United States Airline-Related Fatalities and Accident Rate 

The history of airline-related crashes in the United States may be traced back to 1926 and 1927, when there were a total of 24 fatal commercial airline crashes. In 1929, there were 51 airline crashes that killed 61 people, and this remains the worst year on record, with an accident rate of around one per 1 million 

In comparison to fatalities in other sectors, the airline fatalities are extremely low. For example, in 1995 people were about 300 times more likely to die in a motor-vehicle-related accident and about 30 times more likely to get drowned than to get killed in an airplane accident [7]. 

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